The U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu has marked a radical shift in U.S. energy policy away from its historical focus on OPEC and oil supply and toward a policy of cutting petroleum demand and promoting …

The idea of a national smart grid might be hitting the mainstream and may also have a considerable budget behind it, but up until now there is no federal law to aid it’s implementation. That …

Steven Chu has created a team to distribute the economic stimulus cash earmarked for energy ‘wisely but also quickly’.
In a very encouraging sign that the administration takes the deployment of renewable energy seriously, Greenwire (subscription …

President Obama’s renewable energy policy looks set to encourage the renewable energy sector. The three main sectors that will be encouraged by the new policies are wind, geothermal and solar.
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the American Wind Energy Association, …

Sorry about the terrible pun, but it does look like physicist Steven Chu will be named President-elect Barack Obama’s Energy Secretary. Democratic officials close to the transition team say that Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize …